The Ukrainian railway carrier Ukrzaliznytsia built a grain carrier at its own facilities, adapted for transportation on the so-called Euro-gauge track.
About this on Friday reported the press service of Ukrzaliznytsia, writes European Pravda.
The car is designed for transporting grain and other bulk food cargo and can use 1520 mm gauge (common in Ukraine) and Euro gauge – 1435 mm.
“Most of the components and materials for it are domestically produced,” says the carrier.
Since the grain car meets the requirements applicable to the infrastructure of the countries of the European Union, this makes it possible to reduce the cost of logistics and simplify the procedure for approving international rail transportation, Ukrzaliznytsia adds.
Chairman of the Board of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevgeny Lyashchenko claims that the carrier wants to put such cars into mass production.
The most common track gauge in the world is 1435 mm (4 ft 8.5 in). 60% of the world’s railways have this gauge, including railways in North America, China and Europe (with the exception of the CIS countries, the Baltics, Finland, Ireland, Spain and Portugal).
In Ukraine, tracks with a width of 1520 mm are currently in use. Thus, from the middle of the 19th century, the standard on the railways of the Russian Empire (later the USSR), Finland and Mongolia was 1524 mm gauge. From May 1970 to the early 1990s, the USSR railways were switched to 1520 mm gauge.
Ukrainian authorities it’s been said many times before about intentions to transfer railway traffic in Ukraine to narrow gauge.
Read also: By train to Europe: how the war changed the potential of railway communications between Ukraine and Poland.
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2023-12-16 08:05:40
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